Catherine Carr is Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her B.S. in Zoology from the University of Cape Town in 1977, her M.A. in Biology from State University New York at Buffalo in 1978, her Ph. D. in Neuroscience from University of California at San Diego in 1984, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology in 1987. In 1986, Dr. Carr was awarded the Society for Neurotheology Prize for an Outstanding Paper by a Young Investigator. She was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1988. Dr. Carr was an Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1990 to 1995, an Associate Professor from 1995 to 1999, and became Professor of Biology in 1999. From 2001-2007, she was Director of the Howard Hughes Undergraduate Teaching Program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Carr was co-director of the Neural Systems and Behavior course at Woods Hole from 1990-1995, and Grass lab director from 2006-2008. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.